Transportation Worker Identification Credential TWIC Guidance for TWIC Reader Pilot Program

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Transportation Worker Identification Credential
(TWIC) Guidance for TWIC Reader Pilot Program

• November 19, 2007

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What to Test

• Identity Verification
• Ensure individual presenting TWIC is same person
  to whom that TWIC was granted
• Method of testing Match live fingerprint to
  template stored on card or to local access
  database
• Card Authentication
• Ensure TWIC itself is a valid, TSA-issued card
• Method of testing Verify presence of CHUID and
  TSA digital signature
• Card Validity Check
• Method of testing Verify TWIC has not been
  placed on hotlist
• Recordkeeping
• Track names, dates and times
• Capability of retaining information for 2 years,
  either electronic or hard copy

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Where to Test High Priority Locations

• Test a range of facility and vessel types
• Geographic areas
• Environmental conditions
• Operational use cases
• Vessels
• Ferries
• Small passenger vessels
• Tow boats
• Deep draft
• Facilities
• Receive vessels that carry hazardous materials
  with higher throughputs
• Container facilities
• Refineries
• Chemical plants
• Etc.
• Receive vessels that are certified to carry 500
  or more passengers

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How to Test Vessel Cruise Ship/Ferry

• Identity verification, card authentication,
  validity check
• Read at access control point
• Access control point may be located on servicing
  facility or upon embarkation to vessel
• Manned by designated security personnel with
  hand-held or permanently fixed biometric reader
• Ferries may use reader at a central location on
  vessel security personnel must escort individual
  to reader

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How to Test Vessel Cargo/Freight Vessel

• Identity verification, card authentication,
  validity check
• Read upon embarkation or prior to crossing
  gangway/boarding ladder
• Access control point manned by designated
  security personnel with hand-held or fixed
  biometric reader
• Fixed biometric readers require continuous
  monitoring of access control points by any
  combination of the following
• Watch keepers
• Security guards
• Deck watchers
• Automatic intrusion detection devices
• Surveillance equipment

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How to Test Vessel Towing/Off-Shore
Supply/Small Passenger

• Identity verification, card authentication,
  validity check with hand-held readers
• Read at access control point located on servicing
  facility or upon embarkation to vessel
• Read at centralized location on the vessel
  (requires escort to reader)
• Read at centralized location ashore

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How to Test Facility Foot or Vehicle Traffic

• Identity verification, card authentication,
  validity check with hand-held or fixed readers
• Access control points manned by security
  personnel and/or physical access control devices
  including TWIC biometric readers
• Access granted using the following
• Closed-circuit television (CCTV) or other type of
  electronic monitoring device where security
  personnel grants access from remote location
  using two-way communications
• Unmanned physical access control equipment
  located at the access point
• Security personnel reading TWICs and granting
  access at the access point

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How to Test Facility Vessel Personnel
Disembarking

• Vessel personnel disembarking shall have their
  TWIC validated in accordance with Declaration of
  Security (DoS) signed by FSO and VSO
• Validation scenarios may include the following
• Designated security personnel for the vessel or
  facility using a hand-held TWIC biometric reader
• Using fixed TWIC biometric reader

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Reader Market

• Initial Technical Testing and Environmental
  Testing
• Pilot Test participants
• Voluntary acquisitions by facilities (and
  vessels?) in advance of regulatory requirements
• Acquisitions to comply with final card reader
  regulatory requirements

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Facilities Receives Foreign Cargo Vessel 100
GRT

• Port of Long Beach
• Hanjin Shipping Terminal

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Facilities Receives US Cargo Vessels 100 GRT
Subject to 46 CFR subchapter I

• Truck Entrance
• Port of Los Angeles

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Facilities Subject to 33 CFR parts 126, 127 or
154

• Refinery
• Sector New York AOR

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Facilities Receives Passenger Vessels 150
Passengers

• Bell Street Pier Cruise Ship Terminal, located
  near Todd Shipyard
• Port of Seattle

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Facilities Receives Vessels Subject to SOLAS

• Passenger Boarding Bridge
• Brooklyn Cruise Ship Terminal, NY

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Facilities Barge Fleeting, Receives
MTSA-Regulated Barges

• Elmwood Marine
• Capacity 455 Barges, between 2 fleets

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Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Facilities
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Vessels Cargo 100 GRT Subject to 46 CFR
subchapter I
M/V PRESIDENT ADAMS
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Vessels Tankship Subject to 46 CFR subchapters
D or O

• M/V ALASKAN NAVIGATOR, 110,693 GRT
• Capacity 1.3 Million Barrels

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Vessels Passenger, Subject to 46 CFR subchapter
H

• Washington State Ferry M/V TACOMA
• Passengers 2,500 Vehicles 202

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Vessels Passenger Vessel 150 Passengers

• P/V CATHERINE MARIE, 240 passengers
• Watermark Cruises, Annapolis, MD

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Vessels Cruise Ship
P/V PRIDE OF AMERICA, 2,146 passengers Norwegian
Cruise Lines
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Vessels Subject to 46 CFR subchapter L
(Offshore Supply Vessel)

• M/V GULF ENDEAVOR

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Vessels Towing Engaged in Towing MTSA-Regulated
Barge(s)

• Kirby Inland Marine
• Towing Vessel engaged in towing MTSA-regulated
  barge (Regulated by D/O or carrying CDC)

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Vessels Mobile Off-Shore Drilling Unit (MODU)